Who knows how I can use a button already created to open and play (in a new window) an SWF located in the root of my site next to the index.html file. The name of the swf is video1.swf. I have tried using the "on (Release)...getURL" commands but the button just doesn't work. It seems like eve...more >>

I'm currently making a contact form for my website. The only problem that I am encountering at this moment is being able to successfully give text boxes variables for the actionscript to read.. is there any tricks to loading variables.. any extra features that I do not know about!! If I h...more >>

Dear Forum I'm learning the actionscript 2 OOP approach and I'm running into an error message that I dont' understand. What am I missing? Any insight appreciated. Thanks! Stephan ---------------------- Error Message: Line 6: A member attribute was used incorrectly. publi...more >>

I think I'm progressing pretty good in Flash ActionScipt and I've come to a point where I started seeing the use for building my own Classes to handle common tasks and just make my life easier. I have most of down okay. Not perfect, but I'm getting there. What completely confuses me is the ide...more >>

Hi, I wonder if it's possible(I haven't see such function though...) to have Flash to detect client-side's system time and determine it's daytime or nighttime. If the time range belongs to "daytime" then it will trigger something.... Does anyone see such function before? ...more >>

I am making a Flash based map for a client. They want to use an XML file to decide which states are shown and what links are followed once an active state is clicked. I have worked out all of the XML part but want to streamline the code in the buttons. I have a button called "btnCalifornia"...more >>

help! please! I have a quiz i am putting together, i have a frame where there are 4 items(doors) you can click on to go to a question. i only have 4 clickable items and have 32 questions altogether. i would like to be able to make it so that each time you click on the item you get a differen...more >>

Hi, is there any way to get the framerate of an swf movie? Thanks, Edit...more >>

I have tried a couple variations in fact my first was from a add-on to Flash that I bought threw the Site here that worked no problem on my computer but on AOL and IE on windows based machines that code did not work. So I searched and found a topic here that had a nice bit of code that I tweak...more >>

Hello, I'm try to call an AppleScript from a Flash moive using fscommand(). I've looked through the Macromedia forums and other places, and I seem to be doing everything correctly; yet nothing happens when I click the Flash button that should activate the script. In troubleshooting, I scaled d...more >>

Hello, Does anyone know how to transfer data from a ComboBox, a DateChooser, and a RadioButton to php? I'm building a submit form that contains these three components, but I don't know how to get their data from the submit form to email, through php. Any input would be helpful. Than...more >>

It would be great if ActionScript had a construct that functioned like php's foreach() which is used to iterate through arrays or objects. An example of the foreach construct from the http://us2.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php: <?php $arr = array(1, 2, 3, 4); forea...more >>

so the whole problem I've been having about declaring vars on the _global obj in two separate SWFs and those vars not being visible is now driving me crazy. Vars declared in both SWFs are being shown together in the for-in loop (as they should) if the SWF is loaded from the local disk. But the...more >>

Hello, Im following a tutorial at gotoandlearn.com on animating filters with code and im trying to get the hang of it but have become stuck when trying to apply it to a movie clip from a button. In the tutorial it is a basic rollover of a movie clip, but i would like to target a mc from a ...more >>

Hello, I am not actionscript saavy and have done this using a tutorial I found. I cannot figure out what part of the actionscript forces the button to stay positioned on the y-axis of the path. I know that the part of the code that says 330 tells the button that it can only slide that length o...more >>

I have a flash movie and I want it to play when the "a" key is pressed then return to the first frame and wait till the key is pressed again any ideas? ...more >>

Hi, I've creating Flash content that is going to be used on a CD. This content is playing in FlashPlayer (not a browser) and I have a button that links to a .pdf also on the cd. the code is as follows: on (release) { getURL("./my_folder/my_pdf_file.pdf", "_blank"); } I'm getting...more >>

Is there a way to generate a random tween so that a movie clip randomly moves, rotates, fades in and out, scales, etc... and at the end of the tween (about 20 frames maybe), it will end up at the desired location, and with the desired properties? ...more >>

I'm building a small feature on a website with a 1024x500 movieclip scrolling trough a 400x300 movie using the Xpos and Ypos of the mouse to navigate left to right and top to bottom, kind of like the background in the 'Find your match' movie at macromedia.com. I can get it to move but is doesn...more >>

Is there any way a Flash application (exe or Mac app) running on a local machine can determine if the machine is connected to the internet (or any network, for that matter?) I'm working on a project that I want to load an xml document only if the user is already connected to the internet . Wha...more >>

I'd like to know how to create the animation that make the image to appear on screen, like on this site. http://www.preload.it/flash/index.htm everytime I click on a different background image, there's this cool animation before the image appears. any idea how to make this or where can I find ...more >>

hi guys, i'm working on a preloader, i have a movieclip 'preloader_mc' it is converted from a bitmap, it takes up 40 frames (1-40), it is motion tween to slide from the right to the left. i'm not sure how to go about building the preloader for this. i want this preloader to calculate the total...more >>

I have a movie clip in two frames on the main timeline. In that movie clip I have two sections with the second having a frame lable. Once I advance to the second frame on the main timeline I want the movie clip to advance to the frame lable within the clip. I am having problems getting this to...more >>

I mouse over a button on my Flash map, and the tooltip pops up. Thats great! Its loaded from the following: actionscript for the first frame of the buttin layer: #include "toolTip.as" actionscript for the button: on(rollOver) { toolTip("Press this button",3); ...more >>

I need to be able to dynamically import .jpg pictures and I'm trying to do that using loadMovie. I understand there is a loader component in the component library that's part of Flash, but it seems to resize the image so that it's not streched or skewed but fits in the box. I've tried m...more >>

I?m trying to create dragable movieclips, and next to that, when a movieclip is clicked, it should swap to the highest depth. I?m using the following script. I use a hittest because there are buttons inside the dragable movieclip; they will not work when I use ?onPress/onRelease?. When ...more >>

I am creating Flash content for CD use. I have put together some flash animation with a menu consisting of buttons. The plan is to click on the button and it loads an external swf file (created in Captivate and published as swf). Once the movie is through playing, I want the user to be able to...more >>

Is there any way to protect my photos from getting downloaded and/or getting printed? If there is a way without having a username & password it would be great....more >>

I have a sound called 123.wav in another folder from where the SWF file is. What Actionscript would I type (on release) to play the sound? Please help ASAP! THANKS!!!...more >>

I want to move the end of a line and the rest to follow. And the coordonates to apear in a box in a corner. Please answer! Thanks!...more >>

Hello to all who read this, I am a new web page designer, using a trial version of macromedia flash 8.0. I am thinking of buying this product because so far, it totally rocks. I am however, having one slight problem. My client does not want her web page to close when her clients ar...more >>

I am loading 3 jpegs into 3 movies. When they are loaded I am putting dynamic text over them. They need to be completely loaded first, and the issue is assuring they are loaded completely before I put the texfiles in the mc's. First - I am writing to a Flash 6 player. The best I have b...more >>

I'm trying to draw over a movie clip that I've already generated. After having generated the primary display, I createEmptyMovieClip or duplicateMovieClip and write on it hoping that what I write will be visible on top of the one I've already done. It isn't. This is the code of the routine...more >>

I'm using an embedded font to style a component button's label: cbtButton.setStyle("fontsFamily","GillSansEmbedded"); cbtButton.setStyle("embedFonts","true"); Is it possible to set the text to anti aliased just like a regular flash textfield? ...more >>

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yes, if your textfield has instance name tf, you can use: tf.textColor=0xff000; tf.background=1; tf.backgroundColor=0x00ffff;...more >>

So, I've made a movie clip from a row of buttons. I placed this MC in the main timeline and named the instance "scrollMC". To this instance, I've attached this script: onClipEvent (enterFrame) { _root.scrollMC._x = -.95*(_root.slider.b); } To the instance of the button for the slider,...more >>

Hi! I'm in a terrible trouble: I just finished preparing a long long script to load external files inside a flash movie. Now, everything worked quite fine, 'till I found out the movie doesn't work at all with mac ( at leas MAC OS X). There's some mac bug I don't know ? Hlp me please, I'm d...more >>

i don't know when you want to change those colors and i don't know what's in your .as file, so i'm unable to say when and where that code should be located. in general, that code should be executed whenever you want to change a textfield's text color and/or background color (or border proper...more >>

Hi. I have 2 movieclips on the same timeline: 1) "stage" is just used for its dimensions and position; 2) "mappa" is a map very larger than the "stage". "On "mappa" there is this code, wich is for resizing "mappa" itself: //------------------------ onClipEvent (enterFrame) { if (Key.isDown...more >>

Frame=1 Line=2 String Literal Not Properly Terminated txt = '<b>Cleftworks entertainment </b><br>officially manages Adrian "The Rock Star" Holoman who was born in Memphis Tennessee</br>' Please look at the code and let know what is wrong ...more >>

Hi there - I was hoping to get some feedback from people as to how they structure their code/content in flash movies - IE code/copntent contained in movie clips and targeted from the main timeline, or an external SWF loaded in with it's own contained code and so on. I have been workin...more >>